The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All - Hardcover

The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. 351 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Leicht vergilbt, sonst sehr guter Zustand / Slightly yellowed, otherwise in very good condition. - This remarkable book shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny habeas corpus, trial by jury, due process of law, prohibition of torture, and the commons are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this powerful essay demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the ambition of empire seize hold of a state. Peter Linebaugh draws on a breathtaking array of primary sources to construct a wholly original history of the Great Charter and its scarcely known companion, the Charter of the Forest, which was created at the same time to protect the subsistence rights of the poor. Linebaugh points to this historic document as a means to redress the circumstances of today's victims of rampant globalization. In detailing the way these charters have been used for centuries, across oceans and empires, in their moments of being forgotten and in current opportunities for revitalization, Linebaugh recounts the history of racism, the story of dispossession, the formation of class societies, and the constitutional history of democracies and republics. This people s history of Magna Carta makes vivid the breadth of the age-old struggle from the streets to the parliaments, and in prisons, slave ships, and the press and triumphantly shows how the restoration of political rights can be achieved by the recovery of economic rights. ISBN 9780520247260 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 518 Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Half cloth with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1195835

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